Due to the increase in the demand for electrical
power which necessitated an expansion of the existing
power system call for an improved design and evaluation
of electrical earthing system of the existing transmission
grid. In this paper, the earthing grid mesh design and
improvement of the 132/33 kV Maryland transmission
station was carried out. IEEE and finite element methods
were used to generate the required grid mesh structure
performance parameters. The soil resistivity was
measured using the wenner four-point method and gotten
to be 235Ωm. ETAP software (19.0) was used to model,
analyze, and simulate the data generated. The result
obtained from the simulation of the existing grid showed
that the maximum touch voltage using the IEEE and
finite element method were 3781.7V and 3766.7V
respectively higher than the tolerable touch voltage,
1581.7V. The existing design was improved by adjusting
the number of rods, number of parallel conductors,
diameter of ground rods and depth of ground rods. The
results from the improved design showed that the
maximum touch voltage of IEEE (1580.3V) and FEM
(1345.8V) were lower than the tolerable touch voltage
1581.7V. Also the improved ground resistance using the
IEEE (0.650Ω) and FEM (0.649Ω) were lower than that of
the existing IEEE (1.626Ω) and FEM (0.777Ω) designs.
The comparison of the result from the improved methods
showed that the touch voltage (1345.8V), ground potential
rise (10712.3V) and ground resistance (0.649Ω) of the
FEM were lower than the touch voltage (1580.3V),
ground potential rise (10716.1V) and ground resistance
(0.65Ω) of the IEEE. It then implies that using the
improved FEM designs, personnel and equipment safety
is highly guaranteed Which transmit into a reliable power
system to the citizenry.